In Kashmir Life Muhammad Maroof Shah diagnoses a Decaying Literary Culture, noting a shift from the previous mystical orientation of Kashmiri literature to what: "can well be described as a literature of lamentation".
As he notes, it's difficult to maintain a local literature in:
As he notes, it's difficult to maintain a local literature in:
a suffocating atmosphere where medium of instruction is still not Kashmiri, where most of the youth don't know Kashmiri at all as it had not been part of their curriculum,